American Philosophical Association. Western Division (Corporate Name)

American Philosophical Association website, viewed November 6, 2018: (The APA has a federal structure, composed of three divisions--the Central, Eastern, and Pacific--and a national office that together make up a single national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The APA informally adopted a divisional structure when the Western Philosophical Association, which had been founded in 1900, joined the newly founded American Philosophical Association in 1901, the former becoming known as the Western Division and the latter becoming known as the Eastern Division. These two divisions of the newly united American Philosophical Association cooperated closely thereafter. The Pacific Division was founded in 1924 as an independent society for philosophy on the Pacific coast, but it soon joined its sister divisions, adopted its present moniker, and began to hold annual conferences. A constitution adopted by the APA in 1927 enshrined a federal governance model that the APA still uses. In 1985, the Western Division was renamed the Central Division)